30 April - 3 May 2005
It was a very successful camp with over 20 participants, many of them interested in wild edible plants.
Our campsite. We utilized a variety of shelters. One of the first things we did was building a grass wickiup.
The wickiup complete! The right photo is showing Wojtek who ate only wild plants for 5 days. Here he is presenting a small cake made with bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) rhizomes.
A closeup of the bracken cake. Meanwhile girls collected cattails shoots (Typha) as we... mainly gathered things to eat... not to be hungry.
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Bernard ran basket-making workshops.
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We cooked hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) soup - traditional ancient Polish soup, and wild garlic - ramsons (Allium ursinum) was most delicious with stewed escargots...
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Ania cooking cattail, garlic and snails. We were lucky as May is an official gathering period for snails (Helix pomatia).
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And this is another delicacy - marsh woundwort Stachys palustris, whose rhizomes we dug out from fields (where it grows as a weed). We fried it like chips, yummy!
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Justyna and Malgosia
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Goodby at the bus stop.
Nest festival: 29 April - 3 May 2006, info here
And here : http://survival.strefa.pl/wyprawa2.htm is my friend's report from our festival.